It's not like you would notice, and it is good that you don't, but the blog software (here) was updated yesterday. I had put it off for almost a year as it was a case of "If it's not broken, why fix it?" It was a little "broken" as it was several years out of date and a bit slow for readers to post ...

I just put the new store, "Ramblin' Dan's Store" in an accessible state a few days ago. It is actually a replacement for "The Hobbyist's Machine Store" with new store software and it is now living in "the cloud" rather than a shared server. You really can't see what the "cloud" does for the store, b...

I just added a few more pictures and updated the Wax Carving Post in the TOOLS section. I installed a Foredom tool hanger on the right side. The base bracket is too large to fit on the top edge and there was no existing place on the side that was suitable. I created a new bracket from a 1x4x18 in re...

I don't know if you noticed. The URL and the name of this website changed a few weeks ago. If you didn't notice then it has all gone well. The name change was the easy part. It is much harder to change the address (URL) Uniform Resource Locator. I just finished doing that. I created the URL "ramblin...

It was an interesting first session in my wax carving class last Monday night. It looks like only 3 to 4 of us and one of them is my daughter Shelley.  Number 3 seems like he is going to switch to a day time class or maybe switch between the evening and day classes. The last one apparently is a...